You’ve surely heard the broad strokes of comedian Chanel Ali’s new show Relative Stranger before: the foster child who, as an adult, embarks on a quest to find her biological parents—or, in this case, just her father. In Ali’s case, she has plenty of colorful ones, both comic and tragic, to share within its packed hour. There turns out to be more than one “relative stranger” in Ali’s show, however. Formally speaking, Relative Stranger is a glorified stand-up set, the otherwise bare stage consisting only of a stool on stage right (Christine Page is credited as the set designer). Relative Stranger could have used a bit more social context to make it go beyond an extended personal anecdote, but some will surely count its refusal to descend into preachiness as a blessing.